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The word 'byle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
byleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of byle in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
makken an the kettlie on tae byle on page 20

1 matches

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
the kettle. Aye taks ages tae byle fan yer stairvin. on page 42

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
An fou it comes the sea shid byle, An fidder swine hae wings." on page 54

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@DoricPhrases Very first byle o tatties. Pluntit in o bucke(2020)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
eukin like Boris Karloff wi a byle on his bum. on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"Ye'll byle the drums afore denner time a on page 26

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
girbaw gemm. This proggit the byle. Wi thair harns clair o the m
an barron fair maks the bluid byle.” Than thai hard
2 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
’ll stick your thrapple and byle ye doun for the tod-hoonds. A
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
eth century, afore the fundie byle brast, an development stalled
1 matches

General Central

Matheson, Ann Lallans 84 - Attrition, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, poetry
the byle on page 9

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o the Moon daesna lat the sun byle the watter awa. It is jalouse
1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
rld o staunnerdised Inglis an byle yer blimmin heid.(2019)

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
"Ah'l pit a pikkil tea on ti byle on page 36

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Fae syle tae byle tae fry tae bake fae laun tae on page 77

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Ootby, (twitter 2022) Central, poetry
cottish winter no let ma heid byle,
1 matches

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